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For 7,767 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 33% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 64% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 6.2 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 59
Highest review score: 100 Mulholland Dr.
Lowest review score: 0 Jojo Rabbit
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4,344 out of 7767
  2. Mixed: 1,490 out of 7767
  3. Negative: 1,933 out of 7767
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  1. The Last Face
    The Last Face's shameful exploitation of Africans doesn’t stop with the mere privileging of its two wealthy white doctors and their trivial personal struggles within the narrative.
  2. The Incredible Jessica James
    Throughout the film, one wishes for a bit more depth regarding Jessica's professional struggles.
  3. I Dream in Another Language
    Just as the director seems to be settling in to tackle some heady ideas, the screenplay’s stale narrative complications instead overtake the film.
  4. From the Land of the Moon
    The film is so humorless and in love with its own obviousness that it grows laughable.
  5. Brigsby Bear
    The film has such a goofy sense of humor and affection for its premise that its uneven narrative is sometimes only as frustrating as a little static on an old VHS.
  6. Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked The World
    This is history that Americans should know, and the filmmaker approach Rumble as an introductory survey course.
  7. Escapes
    A preoccupation with the totemic materiality of cinema runs through Michael Almereyda’s documentary.
  8. Girls Trip
    Malcolm D. Lee's film at least it goes down easy. Easy like a Sunday-morning hangover.
  9. First Kill
    Lacking any vibrancy, wit, or formal rigor, First Kill is not only as bland and leaden as its über-generic title suggests, it's downright sloppy to boot.
  10. Mister Universo
    The film eventually replaces the captivating smallness of everyday life with an inconsequential drama.
  11. The Girl Without Hands
    The film creates a deeply rooted sense of realism that contrasts the austere, surreal illustrations.
  12. The Midwife
    If not for its performances, the film would belong in the category of Hallmark Channel tearjerkers.
  13. Dunkirk
    In devoting so much time to the dull, counterproductive mechanics of the action assembly, Dunkirk dispenses with nearly all other elements of drama.
  14. Our Beloved Month of August
    Gomes contemplates the many human dimensions wavering under the surface of this town, whether it’s the mythologies crowding a town’s gossip session or the tall tales flooding rants at a local bar. This is a collective voice of character rather than a dry document of reality.
  15. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
    The difference between the film and its equally expensive contemporaries is Luc Besson's playful, childlike naïveté.
  16. Landline
    Heroin is to Landline what abortion is to Robespierre's Obvious Child: a dangerous little variable planted to strategically unsettle the pervading cutesiness.
  17. The Untamed
    Each brief glimpse of the creature’s fleshy, slithering mass imbues the character drama with an aching sexual desire and, as the violent potential of the entity becomes clear, a mounting sense of dread.
  18. Amnesia
    Amnesia ultimately delivers rich insights about its main characters’ relationship to their backgrounds.
  19. Wish Upon
    The only wish that ends up satisfyingly granted is, in Wish Upon's final and utterly predictable tableau, the audience's.
  20. To the Bone
    One of the film’s great qualities is its casualness and willingness to be simply human and to not let sociological politics dominate.
  21. The Wrong Light
    The divide between meaningful journalism and ethical filmmaking seldom seems as wide as it does in The Wrong Light.
  22. The Persian Connection
    Daniel Y-Li Grove adeptly creates an icy, über-hip atmosphere of sleek clubs, pulsating synths, and woozy opium trips, a style which has the unfortunate effect of draining much of the cultural specificity from his story.
  23. Footnotes
    The ending cheapens its main character and weakens the film's firm commitment to the importance of workplace organizing.
  24. False Confessions
    The film is a trim farce with no blood flowing under its skin, as it’s all construction, setup, and payoff.
  25. Chasing Coral
    What makes it play as more than just another activist doc is its focus on the power of images as a way to inspire change.
  26. Bronx Gothic
    By design, the film is intensely preachy. And this preachiness serves a therapeutic purpose, offering jolting possibilities for empathy.
  27. Blind
    At one point, the film makes a bold but foolish move by getting in the ring with Tolstoy, analogizing itself to Anna Karenina in a self-seriously laughable attempt to pass its schmaltzy and contrived romance narrative off for something significantly grander.
  28. Spider-Man: Homecoming
    By partially demonstrating what a newer, fresher superhero movie might look like, Homecoming ultimately underlines its own genre-defined limitations.
  29. Endless Poetry
    Endless Poetry eventually, like young Alejandro, opens itself up to the world in all of its beauty and complexities.
  30. The Confessions
    Director Roberto Andò takes the form of a classical whodunit and bludgeons it with naïve indignation and sanctimony.
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